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I heard about a book in a podcast last week and the idea fascinated me so I got it: https://www.amazon.com/Pity-All-Portrait-German-Jewish-1743-1933/dp/0312422814 The story of the German Jews from 1743 to 1933. Last year I read Victor Klemperer's "I Will Bear Witness", a secular Jew's two-volume diary that starts where this new book leaves off and runs through the end of the war. Klemperer was a German professor, can't recall what -- history maybe? Linguistics? -- who considered himself a fully assimilated Jew. He married a gentile, belonged to a Christian church, hated the notion of Zionism and believed the worst propaganda about Israel. Then reality hit and the book is an amazing story as the Nazi's begin crushing the Jews and his life in Dresden becomes an increasingly unbearable series of humiliations and deprivations. So now this book, Pity, starts earlier with Moses Mendelssohn, the intellectual giant and creator of reform Judaism, and the story of the assimilationists who, like Klemperer later on, thought that they were simply Germans. Guess not, eh? Every time I find a new book like this with so much richness to offer I'm humbled and excited. The world is falling apart around us largely because people are so damned ignorant now. We don't read enough, ask enough critical questions enough, accept a media where reporters are bent on indoctrinating their audience rather than seeking truth on their behalf. It's kind of the end of the world as we knew it. For sure our stupid little cult was a harbinger of the times but we're definitely in all thickly across the board and yes, it most certainly is a neo-Moaist nightmare packed into the various aspects of a broad woke agenda. Globalism's part of it but not its entirety. The interface with the cold stifling anti-western ambitions of the CCP and the anti-anything not Muslim ambitions of Islam just make it all weirder. But it's happening alright. Yes? No? Maybe? Modified by Jim at Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 13:52:01 |
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